Have courage and be kind.

#you know how in voyage of the dawn treader there's that incredible sequence on the island#where eustace meets a dragon and is entirely incapable of recognizing it as a Dragon#because he didn't read the right kind of books as a child#no one is born knowing things there is always a moment when you learn for the first time#and i grant that fairy and fae are different words#but baby girl#please#the only acceptable way to post this is after you do a MODICUM of research and are admitting this is a thing you just learned!#we do not sit and stew in a soup of our own ignorance forever lest someone else season it with their disdain!!!

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

tragic heroes

This, the first word of Beowulf, the famous Anglo Saxon poem (which would have been delivered orally to its audience), has no direct translation into English. J.R.R. Tolkien described it as "a note striking up at the beginning of the poem" and in his translation simply used "Lo!" It was a word used to draw the listener's attention.

However, in 2021 a new translation was made that attempted to modernize the tone of the poem and make it relatable to the modern reader. In this translation, the author, Maria Dahvana Headley, used "Bro!"

Jane Austen emphasizes marrying prudently, but without sufficient independent wealth (rare), a woman's life becomes tied to a good man's survival. Mr. Dashwood inheriting late and dying early put his wife and daughter's fates in the hands of his selfish son. When women cannot work, they must hope that their fathers live until they marry, hope that their brothers will take care of them, and hope to be provided for as widows. Even love matches can end in ruin if the man holding the money is incompetent, as Mrs. Smith in Persuasion emphasizes. But men are supposed to provide for the dependant women in their lives, Jane Austen points to this social contract again and again, so why does it fail? Because there are almost no consequences when men refuse to do their duty. No one shuns John Dashwood for the way he treats his female relations. The only ones with the power to hold men accountable are men themselves, and why would they do that?

Not to mention that a man can uproot his entire family's life without any need to consult them (North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell), the jobs available to women were degrading and poorly paid (Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë), escaping abuse was dangerous and legally difficult (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë), being born as an intelligent woman was seen as a curse because it was useless and wouldn't get you married (The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot), etc. etc. etc.